8-Hospital Organization is Largest Not-For-Profit in Mid-Atlantic Region DENVER, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. ("Global Med" or the "Company") (OTC:GLOB) (BULLETIN BOARD: GLOB) , an international healthcare information technology company, today announced that its Wyndgate Technologies(R) division has licensed its ElDorado Donor(TM) blood management system and ElDorado Donor Doc(TM) electronic donor history questionnaire to MedStar Health of Beltsville, Maryland. MedStar will also be contracting validation services from Global Med's PeopleMed subsidiary. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040226/GLOBALMEDLOGO) Kirsten Alcorn, M.D., Medical Director for MedStar Health Blood Donor Services, commented, "MedStar Health was interested in a single donor system which would communicate between donor centers. We also wanted better information management between donors and manufacturing. ElDorado Donor blood management software provides this communication link and supports good manufacturing processes and quality control of our blood products. Safety in the blood bank is critical to our organization. The quality control afforded by an electronic system helps us to maintain high standards and our patient first philosophy." ElDorado Donor blood management software was developed as part of an integrated modular system specifically designed for donor centers and hospitals to increase efficiency and help enhance blood safety during the manufacture of blood products for transfusion. ElDorado Donor combines system management, donor management tools, testing, manufacturing processes and distribution to allow MedStar a reliable information stream from donation to final distribution. ElDorado Donor Doc will unite an electronic pre-donation health history questionnaire with this complex blood management system to help evaluate donor suitability for donation prior to processing blood products. Donor Doc's multi-lingual feature is of particular importance to MedStar Health. In addition to serving a large Spanish speaking population, MedStar Health has a sizable hearing-impaired donor group. Gallaudet University, a world leader in liberal education and career development for deaf and hard-of-hearing undergraduate students, is a major blood contributor for MedStar Health. Donor Doc's ability to administer a pre-donation health history questionnaire electronically provides Gallaudet students the opportunity to participate in blood drives without an interpreter. Thomas F. Marcinek, President and COO of Global Med Technologies, Inc., stated, "We are very pleased that MedStar Health has shown confidence in Global Med's ability to deliver advanced donor management systems to their hospitals. This confidence is confirmation that Global Med's products are highly respected in the industry." Mr. Marcinek continued, "The ElDorado products are designed to support the integrated data processing requirements of small centers to large, complex organizations such as MedStar Health. Our team is poised to support MedStar with quality products and excellent customer service that will support their patient-first philosophy of combining care, compassion and clinical excellence with an emphasis on customer service." About MedStar Health MedStar Health is a $3.5 billion not-for-profit healthcare organization and a community-based network of eight hospitals and other healthcare services in the Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region. As the area's largest health system, it is one of its largest employers, with more than 25,000 associates and 5,000 affiliated physicians. MedStar Health has over 158,000 inpatient admissions and more than one and a half million outpatient visits each year. MedStar Health's areas of clinical excellence include cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology services, rehabilitation, neurosciences, orthopedic surgery, women's services, and emergency and trauma services. About Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. Global Med Technologies, Inc. is an international healthcare information technology company which develops regulated and non-regulated products and services for the healthcare industry. As a leading provider of blood and laboratory systems and services, Global Med's products are deployed in 20 countries and serve over 2,100 transfusion centers, blood banks and laboratory sites. Global Med's domestic companies are Wyndgate Technologies(R), a leader in software products and services for donor centers and hospital transfusion services; eDonor(R), which offers web-based donor relationship management systems; and PeopleMed(TM), Inc., which implements cost-effective software validation, consulting and compliance solutions to hospitals and donor centers. Global Med's European subsidiary, Inlog, SA, is a leading developer of donor center and transfusion management systems as well as cellular therapy software, laboratory information systems and quality assurance medical software systems internationally. For more information about Global Med's products and services, please call 800-996-3428 or visit http://www.globalmedtech.com/. This news release may include statements that constitute forward-looking statements, usually containing the words "believe," "estimate," "project," "expects" or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this news release. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040226/GLOBALMEDLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Global Med Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Michael I. Ruxin, M.D., +1-303-238-2000, , or Investors, Karen Davis, CFO, +1-916-404-8495, , both of Global Med Technologies, Inc. Web Site: http://www.globalmedtech.com/

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